November 7th, 2025

UW Professor on the Rare Cancer That Took Mia Hamant’s Life

A University of Washington (UW) junior goalkeeper, Mia Hamant, died at the age of 21 from a rare form of kidney cancer. KIRO Newsradio’s Frank Lenzi sat down with Scott Tykodi, an associate professor at UW, to discuss kidney cancer and the research that is being done.